Tanie Kitabayashi
Acting1911Tokyo, Japan
Biography
Tanie Kitabayashi (北林谷栄, Kitabayashi Tanie, May 21, 1911 – April 27, 2010) was a Japanese actress and voice actress. Born Reiko Ando in Tokyo, she began as a stage actress. Early in her career, she became well known for portraying older women. Kitabayashi was a founding member of the famed Mingei Theatre, founded in 1950. In 1960, she won best actress awards at the 10th Blue Ribbon Awards and at the Mainichi Film Awards for Kiku to Isamu. She also won the Japan Academy Prize for best actress in Rainbow Kids (1991), a film that also earned her honors from the Mainichi Film Awards and from Kinema Junpo. She died on April 27, 2010, of pneumonia at a Tokyo hospital. She was 98.
Known For
Acting History
2003
Resurrection
as Saki Naito
2002
Letter from the Mountain
as Oume
1991
Rainbow Kids
as Mrs. Toshiko 'Toji' Yanagawa
1989
Rikyu
as Mother
1988
My Neighbor Totoro
as Granny (voice)
1987
Twilight of the Cockroaches
as Torah (voice)
1985
1983
1982
Suspicion
as Harue Shirakawa
1981
Call from Darkness
as Sukeno
Station
as Masayo Mikami
1978
Never Give Up
as Kiyo Matsushita
The Incident
as Kane Shinozaki
1977
The Wild Daisy
as Tamiko's Grandmother
1974
1970
Apart from Life
as Matsuko Fukuji
Pure Land, Poisoned Sea
as Goze / Narrator (voice)
Terror in the Streets
as Shino
Oh, My Comrade!
as Harumi
おくさまは18歳
TVas Asuka's grandmother
1967
1966
Wrath of Daimajin
as Old Woman Kane
1965
A Chain of Islands
as Kikuko Sasaki
Tale of Japanese Burglars
as Hayashida's mother
The Start of Life
as Tomi Ishiguro
1964
Welcome, My Baby
as Yuki Nishizaka
Only on Mondays
as Yuka's mother
Intentions of Murder
as Kinu Takahashi
1963
Beyond the Green Hills
as Shiraki, Teacher
The Third Will
as Kimie
The Insect Woman
as Madam
All My Children
as Fusakichi's mother
Daybreak Chorus
as Old Woman
1959
Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
as Grandma Shigeko
Odd Obsession
as Hana
1958
Conflagration
as Aki, Goichi's mother
Chance Meeting
as Tetsu Koyanagi
1957
But the Flesh is Weak
as Doctor
Hole in One
as Suga Akabane
1956
Love is Lost
as Nobuyo
Darkness at Noon
as Satoe Miyazaki
Shiawase wa doko ni
as Kane
Our Town
as Otaka
Summer Storm
as Mitsu Asai
1955
Ghost Story of Youth
as Nanny at Okumura's
The Heart
as Hioki's mother
1954
The Valley Between Love and Death
as Tetsu Ishida
The Street Without Sun
as Aunt of Matsutaro
1953
1952
Beauty and the Thief
as Mrs. Inokuma
Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to
as Aunt Otora
Muntinlupa no yo wa fukete
as Fusako Kawai
Farewell to Spring
as Old woman
Children of Hiroshima
as Otoyo